RIGHTTT?!? Lol...guess it all about priorities for some!
I've seen that type of response so often in these boards when the two sides of the carry on policy are debated and I find it disturbing every time. Nothing as wonderful as someone saying, "If you find it financially difficult, but doable, to take a Disney cruise, then maybe you should consider a Carnival cruise, instead." I'm in that financially difficult category and we're still going to celebrate my son's completion of chemotherapy for leukemia. I apologize in advance if you still feel that, because of our financial status, we should forgo a Disney cruise and pick a cheaper competitor, instead.
Congratulations on your son's completion of chemotherapy and best wishes for an amazing cruise of family, love and magical memories.
There is nothing quite like Disney magic
Actually, the poll response was "profit", not "greed". There is a difference.
And of course the responses trended 90% in that direction. I am sure that you have been reading all of the posts by people who have received calls from DCL to address their concerns. These posts provide all sorts of explanations from Disney that are both contradictory and nonsensical. So of course it is profit driven. What other logical explanation could there be when the cruise line will only allow each person to bring on board 6 beers of 12 ounces each but will allow that same passenger to have 48 beers of 16 ounces each delivered to their cabin waiting for them when they board? And what other explanation but profit could there be when a couple can only bring on board 4 bottles of wine but that same couple can buy a wine package from the cruise line and have 14 bottles of wine waiting for them in their cabin upon arrival? Surely volumetric consumption is not the reason. So doesn't it have to be profit?
But those bartenders make most of their money from tips, and the boss of said bartender probably used to be a bartender himself. So he gets it. Thus, there is going to be very little incentive to stop a passenger without car keys in his pocket from placing another order. The incidents that you recall have simply been too few and too far between to matter.They can stop the second issue from happening by warning followed by firing the CM that does not stop serving drinks to an intoxicated passenger.
Again, and I don't know how this can be any more clear, a couple who used to bring 10 bottles of wine on board can now bring 4, and is invited by Disney to please buy this:They can stop the first issue from happening by limiting the amount of alcohol brought on board.
People need to stop judging DCL about their decision. No one really knows why they did what they did. Can't everyone just accept it, acknowledge that it is right for them, and be happy?
An explanation isn't owed. I don't question people who go jewelry shopping while on their cruise and buy $2,000 tennis bracelets or $7,000 Rolexes. Nor do I question them when they go on a cruise and leave a $1.5 million house behind, with a $90,000 car in the garage. I don't spend my money on any of those things. By comparison, fine wine is a relatively inexpensive luxury good.Who buys 100$ bottles of wine?
Ok, lol, not gonna lie to you... Passed 25$ I don't make the difference between a 25$ bottle and a 100$ bottle.
I don't know enough about wine.
especially when the policy change is done in such a fashion that it affects the passengers that chose DCL for a certain policy, and DCL changes the policy, and it is within the 'Paid in Full' date when technically you can't cancel your cruise if you wanted to without penalty. I believe these people should be grandfathered in and allow them to follow the old policy; or if it's really that significant of a change to you that you want to cancel you should be able to without penalty.
I would disagree with you on this; especially when the policy change is done in such a fashion that it affects the passengers that chose DCL for a certain policy, and DCL changes the policy, and it is within the 'Paid in Full' date when technically you can't cancel your cruise if you wanted to without penalty. I believe these people should be grandfathered in and allow them to follow the old policy; or if it's really that significant of a change to you that you want to cancel you should be able to without penalty.
For all the future cruisers that don't (or do) like the change, they absolutely have the right to let Disney know; they can e-mail, snail mail, call, or get on the DIS cruise board and vent their frustration (civilly please). In the end if the policy is not changed to a persons satisfaction, you can still choose DCL or let DCL know that you are taking your business elsewhere.
I would think that DCL would be interested in knowing what their future clients are thinking. If a policy change actually causes a decrease in reservations they want to know why.
That was written tongue firmly planted in cheek for the benefit of the "no one should judge anybody crowd."
Exactly. Elitist, much? It just comes off crass. Ya know, my momma taught me better manners than this. If you have something another kid doesn't you don't make the situation more uncomfortable for them. You share and reach out. It's called empathy. IDK, maybe it's just me, but those comments are distasteful to read. Just me.I've seen that type of response so often in these boards when the two sides of the carry on policy are debated and I find it disturbing every time. Nothing as wonderful as someone saying, "If you find it financially difficult, but doable, to take a Disney cruise, then maybe you should consider a Carnival cruise, instead." I'm in that financially difficult category and we're still going to celebrate my son's completion of chemotherapy for leukemia. I apologize in advance if you still feel that, because of our financial status, we should forgo a Disney cruise and pick a cheaper competitor, instead.
IDK. When I see something distasteful I try to just remove my eyeballs because I can't handle it sometimes. Hard to keep my mouth shut. When I see mean-ness to other people in particular. Do you stand there and accept such or do you stand up to that?We are becoming a nation of the chronically offended.
IDK. When I see something distasteful I try to just remove my eyeballs because I can't handle it sometimes. Hard to keep my mouth shut. When I see mean-ness to other people in particular. Do you stand there and accept such or do you stand up to that?